Guess what — the same thing happened again this morning at the same location. The only difference was my speed — about 5 MPH instead of 0 MPH — and another pedestrian bumped into me.

The guy even looked straight at me, so I moved over so we can pass by each other. Just as I passed by he jumped like a startled cat and blurted a short expletive.

I believe two is a trend. If it happens again is this a conspiracy?

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A Vietnamese man waits for customers behind his bicycle pump in the old quarter of Hanoi October 26, 2010. Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital that marks 1000 years of its establishment this October, hosts the leaders from the 10 ASEAN states plus China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and others for the ASEAN summit this week.

In Toronto, the famously anti-bike Rob Ford won the mayoral election. Last September, he said, “ “Roads are made for buses, cars, and trucks—not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for ‘em when I hear someone gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day.”

Mr. Vescio can remember the passenger in the truck, a young man in his early twenties or late teens, leaning out the window and hollering at him to “Get off the road!” Then the truck pulled ahead a bit and began moving to its right, cutting into Mr. Vescio’s lane of travel.

He can remember pushing his left shoulder into the side of the truck in order to keep his balance as it pressed him farther and farther to the right.

“I’ll tell you, a lot of people blow their horns, and some people scratch their head when they see me,” said Tom Linegar of Harbour Grace in eastern Newfoundland. “But I guess you don’t often see someone on a bicycle with a rifle slung over their shoulder.”

A worker rides his bike past the Bushehr nuclear power plant on October 26, 2010 as Iran began to load fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant some 745 miles south of Tehran. The Russian-built power plant is supervised by the United Nation’s nuclear agency. UPI/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgarpour.